Most people pay their electricity bill begrudgingly without giving it much thought. MarketWatch's Jim Jelter has three things you may not realize about your bill. (Photo: Getty Images)

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I ... ay ay ay ay ... deregulation of the power industry ... competition was going to result in cheaper and cleaner electricity for America ... by Amgen Jelter MarketWatch ... Bill Sanders gets annoying utilities in the New York to earn a ... second look back to what deregulation promise ... and wanted to look for ... her away the power bill it's up about two point one percent of the average household Cinco ... and while we might grumble about it ... was so take the time to take a wicket the numbers build it and came up with six things you went on a surprise ... there are three of the ... first of all was to spell them to the electricity is clean energy ... also called clean energy has made great strides ... thirty nine percent of the nation's electricity is still generated a coal fired power plants ... another twenty seven percent comes from ... gas ... and nuclear power stations supply about nineteen percent of the power going out on the grid ... only thirteen percent comes from renewable sources ... such as hydro wind solar ... biofuels ... there's another little surprise ... during tuition may not save you money ... the move but ministers to break up their old utility monopolies and give consumers the right to choose their power provider ... has generally failed to bring down prices for residential customers ... in Texas for example ... since two thousand and two ... the average household has paid four thousand five hundred dollars more for electricity ... than it did before the reveal ... and finally ... green power ... which often disagree at all ... when well intentioned customers sign up for green power the company provided the power often Boise to someone to pour the country ... and then Swanson for electricity generated closer to your own ... that saves on transmission costs besides ... once towers been thin on the grid ... there's no way to differentiate between electricity generated by solar panel ... or other coal fired power plant ... that's because one electron ... looks pretty much the same as the next ... regardless of which fuel is used to generate ...